George Matulaitis Journal

I had thought of ignoring this letter and not responding to it at all. However, some of the priests thought that it would be worthwhile to reply. I conferred with Monsignor Michalkiewicz. Actually, in this case he was more the one being attacked because he introduced the present arrangement of church services in the parishes of mixed nationality. I had not changed anything, but had simply continued the previous arrange- ments that he had introduced. And it was he who had assigned the priests now being attacked. Monsignor Michalkiewicz was of the opinion that we ought to answer the letter in some way. But how? He suggested that the reply could be in the form of questions and answers. Others thought that the chancery office should reply in the bishop’s name. It seemed to me inappropriate for the chancery and the bishop to get involved in an argument with such people. It would be difficult to convince or satisfy them. They will just go right on singing the same old tune. We decided that I should go and talk with Mr. Niedzia = kowski, who is in charge of this district. 288